Tedris

Hey everyone, I've been a bit busy so I haven't been working on my mod as often as I'd like. One of the things causing issues is that my mod is essentially adding a new machine that generates power, and I want to test it working with outputting that power, either with just buildcraft, or with Thermal Expansion to test transferring power to a Redstone Energy Cell, ultimately I would like to test it with Tekkit to make sure my Ids match up. I've read on other sites that this is easier starting with 1.6.2, but since Tekkit is stuck on 1.5.2, that's what I'm working with. I have another thread where there were some suggestions about a month ago but did not really work for me, does anyone have experience with mod add on development that could point me in the right direction? Thanks.

What's the server issue with piping lava from the nether? On the small server that I'm on, I have lava being piped through a liquid tesseract to 27 magmatic engines. Is it an issue that would happen with a higher populated server?

I just realized that the original question might have actually meant batteries from the modular power suit, in that case the battery needs to be installed in the armor and the armor put in the energetic infuser. My statement about power still applies, the energetic infuser takes a lot of power. Also it would help to specify in the topic what exactly you mean as I was easily confused and went off on a wrong tangent.

Cool, was thinking about doing something like that, that would allow me to get a lot of ores in, maybe I should set up DSUs for what I make after auto pulverizing and smelting, I suppose that would fill them up faster though.

Storing power is different in new Tekkit, luckily in the new recommended version, you have more options. Take a look at the Makeshift Battery to start with. For endgame storage, check out the Redstone Energy Cell. I would recommend you look into getting Magmatic Engines for power generation at some point, I have a lot just feeding into cells that are used to power quarries, only problem is I still need to get more space in my ME Network to handle all of the ores coming in. I've heard of people using less just to run a quarry though, so check out the wiki and search around the forums and see what your options are.

I was planning on working on a Solar Generator for my friend's server, new to modding but I know Java so there's part of it, I will put it on the site when it's in working condition for Tekkit to use, but it's just a preliminary thing and I'll figure out other things to do once I get a handle on the general feel of modding. Maybe I'll make it open source so a community can work on it, do you think that the solar generator should be added at least?

Awesome, I'll take a look at the buildcraft source and see if I can't figure things out. Thanks for the advice about using MCP, I only set up forge in a Dev environment so I'm not sure if I have all the needed tools or not, was mainly following their getting started section. Still less of a headache than the codebase I deal with at work! Edit: Looks like Mekanism is open source, I'll be looking through that to figure out how they work with solar power, surprised it's not already in tekkit!

Oh cool, I thought about doing something like that, but wasn't sure as I didn't think the projects were open source. I had some issues getting JadClipse working last night for looking at jars, do you have any recommendations for what I should be using to look at the source code?

Hey everyone! I've been working with Java for a bit and decided to try writing my own mod for my friend's tekkit server. The most requested thing is for them to have solar power in new tekkit, but since that isn't normally in the mod, I figured I could rig something up that could take in sunlight and output a small amount of power to Redstone energy conduits, also maybe having an internal energy storage that can be output, or maybe more like the Thermal Expansion machines. Anyway, figuring out how to program that functionality has been slow going. I have set up my development environment in Eclipse already with Forge, but have been having issues just trying to make sense of making something that complex. Are there any tutorials for making that sort of machine? Thanks.